The Looney Bin

I haven't really been following the Schiavo case, but it does seem to me that the Republicans are behaving like lunatics. Are they really in favor of politicians in Washington getting in the way of private decisions between a family and its doctors? Is our ability to make our own choices in life going to be dependent of the whims of government? And are the Democrats in Congress going to have the guts to make the right pay and pay and pay because of this travesty? Because I don't think the American people, left or right, are going to see this situation as anything other than a carnival, as a disgusting freak show.